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Brussels, May 02, 2023 (PPI-OT):Aakashi Bhatt, the daughter of jailed whistle-blower police officer Sanjiv Bhatt, held meetings with human rights defenders in Brussels about the continued judicial harassment and prolonged arbitrary incarceration of her father at the hands of the Modi regime in India. According to Kashmir Media Service, Sanjiv Bhatt is being victimized for telling India’s Supreme Court that Modi had explicitly ordered the police to stand down and let Hindu mobs kill Muslims in Gujrat during 2002 anti-Muslim violence.
Aakashi Bhatt, a researcher, surgeon in the UK, informed the Europeans Sanjiv Bhatt’s case is emblematic of the systematic assault on human rights defenders. Sanjiv Bhatt, according to his family, was wrongfully convicted three years ago of murdering a man he had never even met. This was actually punishment because Bhatt told India’s Supreme Court that Modi had explicitly ordered the police to stand down and let mobs kill Muslims. “For the past twenty years my father has been paying the price for fighting for justice. It takes courage to fight a long lonely battle.”
It is worth mentioning here that Aakashi Bhatt speaking on the first day of a three-day virtual conference, “India On the Brink: Preventing Genocide”, last year, had said, “We live in a world where systematic genocide takes place and the perpetrators are Scott free and continue to live freely for decades. The virtue of non-violence and tolerance burnt with Gujarat riots.”
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